Sentences with phrase «for a rain day»

And, in the real sense of it, only a prodigal administration will not prepare for the raining day!

With coloured wellies for those raining days and outdoor events.

i just completed a student loan rehabilitation on my six student loans that went into default.i contacted him to fix my financial crises with a token which i saved for the raining days, this genius never dissapoints.

So thanks for sharing such a pretty picture, now I'm hoping for a rain day to work on mine.!

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

And, tired of passing out rain checks for out - of - stock sale items, supermarket chain Kroger Stores is consulting locally with Faith about a real - time FOD application to shrink the gap between print - ad expectations and day - of - sale supply.

For instance: «We're seeing people put the camera to the sky and use a theme to drive a lot of rain all of the sudden on a sunny day if they're not feeling good.»

Saturday is a busy day for the festival, but that day's nearly constant rain heightened folks» sense of crisis.

Rains recommends setting aside money in a savings account that you pledge not to touch for day - to - day needs or wants.

«The worst is not yet over for Southeast Texas, at least as rain is concerned,» Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a Wednesday press conference, adding that flooding in the Beaumont region can be expected for the next few days.

Years ago when I played ultimate five or six days a week, practicing in the rain until my body ached, playing four or five games a day two days in a row, being sore and painfully scabbed for months.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

The rain kept up for most of the day, making the long, long walk around Chicago's Grant Park a little more treacherous.

It has been raining constantly for the past two days but I didn't hear tarmac rip open.

The rightly ordered joy of our senses in this world — the scent of spring, warm rain in the summer, the music of Mozart or Beethoven, the face of a beloved — is a foretaste of the glory God made for all of us to share, when we one day stand in his presence.

Surprisingly, Maine makes little of these scenes: Noe (the author uses the spellings employed in a pre-King James translation) is portrayed in the opening sentence as glancing «toward the heavens, something he does a lot these days,» but aside from the implication that he may be looking for further divine clarification and not just the promised rains, we don't see him musing much.

Source: potsc.com via Sarah on Pinterest These days, words are becoming flesh for me.I drove in the pitch dark pouring rain to Pastor Helen's house, perched precariously on the hill next to the ocean, navigating hair - pin turns in a minivan....

It has been raining for five days straight here in East Tennessee, resulting in terrible flooding and a very disappointing 4th of July.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

It was fairly miserable and all I could think about it how I wanted to be dry and in bed and how I felt bad for Hailey that she was stuck in a closed park with no access to rides and that's when I noticed that she was having the most fun she'd had all day just jumping in the enormous puddles and catching rain in her mouth.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

He entered on the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:11) and left on the 27th day of the 2nd month of the following year (Gen 8:14) There were 40 days of rain, 150 days of drifting, 150 days of receding water, 4 weeks for the recon birds to find land, 10 days between coming ashore and getting God's OK to disembark.

If there are 90 % insects, and we consider them to be all very small, (which we know they are not), we could say that each pair, in order to fit on the «ARK» would need 4 square inches for two of them, plus their food for more than 40 days (Actually I think it was about a year, but we will go with about 40 days just to give the bible thumpers a chance, it supposably rained for 40 days).

The rain and driving winds of 65 miles per hour are expected to cause problems for several more days.

During his week in Brazil for World Youth Day, an international Catholic event, mob scenes erupted everywhere Francis went, despite cold temperatures and driving rain for much of the week.

Your second option is to throw out all that evidence, say it rained for a really long time to create the big flood and have no earthly way of explaining how it could happen and then your only real issue is the explanation of how noah was able to fit every piece of flora and fauna onto his ark, his family and enough food to survive for 40 days at sea.

I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three - day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.

On Thursday, Perry turned to an even higher power by declaring the upcoming holiday weekend «Days of Prayer for Rain.»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Snakes talk, men live in whales for 3 days, bread rains down from the sky, a man parted the sea, chariots of fire come and go from heaven, and there's a flaming sward guarding this garden of fruit... Anyone who believes this stuff is a dummy of the highest order..

5 days a week it's either raining or heavy cloud here in the DC area for going on 2 solid months now.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Luther explained to the Elector that the situation was indeed serious and, «even (Your Electoral Grace will excuse my foolish words) if it should rain Duke Georges for nine days and every Duke were nine times as furious as this one», he, Luther would still have to come and attend to the situation in Wittenberg.

Now no longer a child, I know that clouds are of various types — cirrus, cumulus, cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus castellanus — and that they portend rain or merely reflect the summer - day idleness that I have no time for.

In 1970, the Hawkins singers backed Melanie on her top 10 hit Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) and won a Grammy for best soul gospel performance for Oh Happy Day.

I've had them for dinner, with coffee, because when it's been raining all day hot pancakes and coffee can kick some serious Humboldt weather ass.

It seems like it's been raining non stop for days, and there's nothing better than hunkering down with a good baking project.

They are perfect for when you want a summer - y barbeque burger situation, but A) it is much much too hot to even consider standing outside in the scorching sun over a 400 degree pit of fire, or B) it is one of those spring / summer days where is is raining and the thought of holding an umbrella over the bbq is more sad than anything.

Today, it's 50 degrees and raining, and all I wanted this grey morning, what with the soft patter of rain on my windows, was the pull the covers back over my head and sleep for the entire day.

If that isn't bad enough it is supposed to rain for the next 7 days.

I kept waiting for a nice day so I could take good pictures, but Wisconsin decided to rain on my parade.

It's only calling for about one more day of rain in the north bay, and then looks like the sun will shine again.

Was a beautiful sunny day today drying out from the few days of torrential rain and the warmth was not a deterrent for this soup!

Yesterday it actually RAINED all day — yes, it rained and didn't snow for the first time since OcRAINED all day — yes, it rained and didn't snow for the first time since Ocrained and didn't snow for the first time since October.

Mornings are cold (at last) and the sun shines the whole day with occasional rains to water the plants and wash away the heat we had for months.

Aside from the horrendous 8 hour car journey on the way down and the torrential rain for our first full day (we spent it playing games, eating / drinking and generally getting on each others nerves) it was a lovely, peaceful week with great weather.

And then it rained for three days and the light was so terrible I had to wait until Tuesday to photograph the cake!

Seems as if the rain is coming earlier and staying for longer periods of time each day.

Well, what do you know, I'll be there on one of the few rare days that it rains in Palm Springs — good for the drought, not so good for shakin'the winter blues.